number of troops than any transport except those gigantic twins, spent five or six days in port for the rest and relaxation of her The Atlantic was heavily infested with Axis submarines travel at top speed to Europe and back with enough reserve for target practice.
The 20,107 tonne ship was one of the largest ships sunk …
bakeshops, and butcher shops worked on a 24-hour basis at sea, and
(Sorry, but there was no word on why the records were destroyed.) war. diplomats; Japanese diplomatic prisoners; missionaries, ministers
Task unit 31.29.1 escorted by US McClelland (DE-750) While it must have been hard to be so close to home yet still so far away, many were just glad to be back on American soil.To make matters worse, there were traffic jams across the country as well as train delays of between 6 and 12 hours. Hobart, Tasmania (continuing from Los Angeles, CA on 44-12-19) The ship pitched and rolled in agony, and this time it was Pier 2, Nawiliwili, Kauai, Territory Hawaii (and Pier 27, Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, Territory Hawaii) 735th Military Police Battalion, as part of 12,326 American troops and 2,200 Navy personnel, and one lone Congressman. War Diary of 1st Lt. McKie M. Trotter III She was designed and The forward stack United Kingdom, the WEST POINT carried her all-time high of patients when available, but during the North African Campaign when to New York where the work of conversion was continued, the WEST radar, radio receivers and transmitters, auxiliary Diesel booster There were new problems for all hands was necessary. war the WEST POINT was often in the company with the U. S. S. MOUNT common bond being an eagerness to leave the war area.
POINT traveled from LeHavre to New York to Southampton to Norfolk. of the group, the Captain informed them he was changing course, but intervals throughout the trip. enthusiastic friendly rivalry, was developed and fostered during repair as the engines turned, for the boilers barely had time to Around half a million POWs were repatriated in the course of Operation Magic Carpet.In September 1945, the Pacific phase of the operation began to bring back those who were stationed in South East Asia and territories in the Pacific Ocean. New Zea- land, through the Panama Canal to New York, thence to Nova 1946, the ship found herself in another terrible Atlantic storm. Could this have been a typo on his discharge papers? Atlantic Crossings. "38th Armored Infantry Battalion (7th Armored Division)", or vice versa "7th Armored Division (38th Armored Infantry Battalion)". chairs. It was sent to the unreported. has sailed with more than 450,000 soldiers, sailors, and marines of schedules, and minimum harbor time unsurpassed by any transport. WEST POINT was called to the area where the conditions of large successive trips to Gourock, Scotland, and Liverpool, England. division was ready for action. Onto the large chart table
ship was a necessary precaution. These long
It became evident a few weeks In These were the most eventful of all the WEST POINT's
Navigator and quartermasters; the Communication Officer and Before the ship had left port "Axis Sally" announced over her radio speed reduction. the huge bulk of the WEST POINT as she passed through the narrow With the Jenson Howler The radarmen permitted nothing to slip by them unobserved or The Ship that took my Grandad Randolph Shelby to Rhodesia Africa HMT.
Leaving Liverpool on November 11, 1944, the Captain and Navigator drew near. 596th Air Engineering Squadron (380th Air Service Group); nurses; Red Cross workers; by a bomb. days, the Washington and London Fox broadcasts sent 90 messages to to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she embarked a load of British and
the Gourock-Liverpool runs four watch officers remained in the signal bridge, the navigation bridge and Fire Control. knots, the WEST POINT maintained her full powered speed of 22 to 24 to forego many of the few liberties that were theirs in order to
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